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1 Release notes
2 =============
4 tig master
5 ----------
7 Incompatibilities:
9 - The screen-resize action has been deprecated. It had no real use for
10 users and was never meant to be exposed.
11 - The "tree-parent" action was renamed to "parent". Warnings will be
12 emitted for transition.
13 - Remove parsing of deprecated option -S and subcommands log and diff.
15 Improvements:
17 - Horizontal scrolling. Bound to Left/Right by default.
18 - Tree view: avoid flickering when updating.
19 - Tree view: annotate entries with commit information.
20 - Tree & blob view: open any blob in an editor.
21 - Stage & main view: restore view position when reloading.
22 - Blame view: load blame for parent commit. For merge commits the parent
23 is queried. Bound to ',' by default via the existing "parent" action.
24 - Abbreviate author names to initials when the width of the author column
25 is below 6 characters.
27 Bug fixes:
29 - Tree view: fix memory corruption bug when updating.
30 - Fix regression for non-UTF-8 locales corrupting the view data.
31 - Fix regression parsing multiple spaces in ~/.tigrc.
33 tig-0.13
34 --------
36 Incompatibilities:
38 - Commands from the environment (e.g. TIG_MAIN_CMD) will no longer have
39 access to shell features, such as subshells and variable expansion.
40 The easiest way to upgrade your configuration is to put such commands
41 in a script file.
43 Improvements:
45 - Display repository references in the sorted order: tags, heads,
46 tracked remotes, remotes.
47 - Add bash completion for blame.
48 - Tree view: edit files of the current branch.
49 - Run requests: new identifiers %(directory), %(file), and %(ref)
50 - Improve responsiveness and view loading speed by using select(2).
52 Bug fixes:
54 - Separate blame revision and file argument by "--" to avoid problems.
55 - Main view: fix redrawing of the last commit wrt. the revision graph.
56 - Fix waiting for input after executing a run request in pager mode.
57 - Status & stage view: refuse to open directories and deleted files.
58 - Tree view: show error when requesting blame for all non-file entries.
59 - Do not draw loading views, which are not displayed.
60 - Fix launching of mergetool from a subdirectory.
62 tig-0.12.1
63 ----------
65 Improvements:
67 - Status view: revert uncommitted diff chunks and unstaged files with
68 changes. Bound to '!' by default.
69 - Main view: use --topo-order also when rev-list arguments are given on
70 the command line.
71 - Log view: support for refreshing.
73 Bug fixes:
75 - Status view: use ls-files' --exclude-standard so user specific ignore
76 rules are effective. The option was added in git version 1.5.4.
77 - Stage view: fix assertion failure triggered when updating while
78 status view is not displayed.
79 - Help view: avoid confusion by showing "(no key)" instead of "'?'" for
80 unbound requests.
81 - Reload repository references when refreshing the main (and log) view.
82 - Do not maximize views when refreshing.
84 tig-0.12
85 --------
87 Improvements:
89 - F5 also refreshes the current view.
90 - Allow line graphics to be disabled with new line-graphics option.
91 - Main view: also include the reference names when searching.
92 - Main view: support for refreshing.
93 - Main view: disable boundary commits by default. Use --boundary when
94 they should be shown. (Debian bug 498628)
95 - Stage view: add stage-next action to jump to next diff chunk that can
96 be staged. By default bound to '@'.
97 - Configure: check for the ncurses header files.
98 - Add author-width option to costumize the width of the author column.
99 For example, put the following in ~/.tigrc: set author-width = 10
101 Bug fixes:
103 - Fix regression when staging all diff chunks in a section.
104 - Bind the maximize view action to 'O'; it conflicted with the
105 keybinding to launch the merge tool in the status view.
106 - Fix problem with $(cmd) usage in shell code. Some shells (jsh)
107 installed as /bin/sh does not support it.
108 - Do not show incomplete boundary commits when --no-walk is used.
109 - Documentation: Rename gitlink macro to support AsciiDoc 8.2.3.
110 - Ignore pipe reads with errno "Success" reported after a signals,
111 for example when refreshing doing background loading.
113 tig-0.11
114 --------
116 Incompatibilities:
118 - Remove parsing of deprecated options: -g, -l, -d.
119 - The first seen '--' will stop option parsing and is passed to git
120 instead of breaking out of tig's option parsing.
122 New features:
124 - Blame view; bound to 'B' by default, reachable from the command line
125 and the tree, status, and stage views.
126 - Blame/main view: allow display of date, author, and references to be
127 toggled on/off. Bound to 'D', 'A', and 'F' respectively.
128 - Add action to maximize the current view.
130 Improvements:
132 - Show the current branch in the status view.
133 - Show local/light-weight tags.
135 Bug fixes:
137 - Fix regressions for the pager mode.
138 - Fix refreshing of the index with working directory info.
140 tig-0.10.1
141 ----------
143 Improvements:
145 - Status view: detect renamed files and show them with 'R'.
146 - Status view: refresh the index to avoid "empty diffs".
147 - Diff view: make diff headers more verbose to include e.g. committer.
148 - Configure: check for the ncursesw library.
150 Bug fixes:
152 - Fix UTF8 handling for tag names and commit messages.
153 - Fix the check for git-config(1) in configure to handle the case when
154 git has been installed using a libexecdir which is not in the path.
155 - Fix replacing of SYSCONFDIR when installing from released tarballs.
157 tig-0.10
158 ---------
160 Incompatibilities:
162 - Deprecate most tig specific command line options to make tig more
163 compatible with gitk. The deprecated options are: -g, -l, -d, and -S.
164 Use of any of them will result in a warning being printed to stderr.
165 Instead of '-S', use the new 'status' subcommand.
166 - Make man page building depend on DocBook XSL version >= 1.72.0.
167 - Install man pages in $(prefix)/share/man.
168 - Implement the cherry pick action (bound to 'C') using new support for
169 running external commands. This obsoletes the TIG_CHEERY_PICK
170 environment variable
172 New features:
174 - Add support for binding keys to external commands. To bind '.' to
175 running git-commit(1), add the line: "bind generic . !git commit" to
176 your ~/.tigrc. Each command can have replacement string such as
177 %(commit), %(head), and %(blob), which are substituted before the
178 command is run.
179 - Add system-wide configuration file defaulting to $(prefix)/etc/tigrc.
180 - Add the environment variables TIGRC_USER and TIGRC_SYSTEM to change
181 user and system-wide configuration files, respectively.
183 Improvements:
185 - Main view: color the revision graph.
186 - Main view: show boundary commits; they are marked with '^' in the
187 revision graph.
188 - Tree view: add tree-parent action to jump to view of the parent tree.
189 Bound to ',' by default.
190 - Allow the default terminal colors to be overwritten. To use black
191 text on white, add the line "color default white black" to your
192 ~/.tigrc.
193 - Misc. documentation improvements.
195 Bug fixes:
197 - Use git-diff-index(1) and git-diff-files(1) instead of git-diff(1) to
198 avoid running external diff drivers.
199 - Use --no-color when calling git-log(1).
200 - Fix crash when opening mergetool for lines that are not unmerged.
202 tig-0.9.1
203 ---------
205 Incompatibilities:
207 - Make the clean rule to never remove generated documentation files.
208 Use the distclean rule for accomplishing this.
210 New features:
212 - Add support for cherry-picking commits in the main view to the
213 current branch. Bound to 'C' by default.
215 Improvements:
217 - Add support for launching git-mergetool(1) from the status view.
218 Bound to 'M' by default.
219 - Add support for refreshing/reloading the status view
220 - Detect working trees and disable the status view when it is missing.
222 Bug fixes:
224 - Fix iconv() checking in configure.
225 - Fix editor invocation to make paths relative to the project root.
226 - Fix out-of-range current line when reloading the status view.
227 - Include autoconf files in the tarball generated by `make dist`.
229 tig-0.9
230 -------
232 New features:
234 - Add bash completion script for tig (contrib/tig-completion.bash).
235 - Add optional autoconf-based build infrastructure.
236 - Add stage view for showing changes in the working tree and add
237 support for staging individual diff chunks for commit.
239 Improvements:
241 - Status view: allow all files in a section to be staged for commit.
242 - Status view: Add support for opening files in an editor. Bound to 'e'
243 by default.
244 - Tree view: use a stack for remembering the lines for parent tree.